Dane County election website goes down just as polls close

[AllyCat]

http://www.wkow.com/story/38886226/2018/08/Tuesday/dane-county-election-website-down#

Still no answers on what happened. They said it was heavy use. Staff was forced to post election results on FB

PAPER BALLOTS, HAND-COUNTED IN PUBLIC.

[CrispyQ]

1. This: PAPER BALLOTS, HAND-COUNTED IN PUBLIC.

Now.

[samnsara]

2. you cant hand count in public.. i used to hand count. youre in a locked room with others..

...so you can cross check each other.

[AllyCat]

6. They can cross check in public too.

Everyone should be able to observe the count.

[CrispyQ]

10. The point is, no electronic touch screens & no black box tabulators.

But I agree with the other poster that there should be a way that the votes are counted in public or with a group of citizens present to observe.

[mythology]

3. Everything is a conspiracy theory

It's not surprising that a county website would go down under heavy demand. Even if you got what you wanted it wouldn't make their website capable of handling a heavier than expected traffic load.

Also Wisconsin uses either paper ballots or voting with a paper trail. But that along with the recount that showed no difference between hand and machine recounts isn't going to stop conspiracy theories.

[AllyCat]

5. So why didn't their website go down in 2016 when they likely had WAY MORE traffic?

This seems unlikely to me. What would increase this demand so much in a partisan primary?Hoping for an answer soon.

By the way, there WERE voting discrepancies in 2016. Hand tallies in one precinct did not match the reported results showing an extra 3000 votes for Trump. While we have paper ballots here, they are counted by computerized optical scanners.

I’ll keep ya posted mythology. Wearing my tin foil hat and all.

[LanternWaste]

8. Unless heavy demand was expected.

"It's not surprising that a county website would go down under heavy demand"

Incompetence and self-interest are neither theoretical nor conspiracies.

[strangedaysindeed]

4. Besides, if you were going to do something like that deliberately

wouldn't you do it when the polls open, not when they're closing.

seems to me this is Not the first time tho'.

[kimbutgar]

9. Couldn't someone livestream on periscope the counting of ballots?